Echoes in a Hollow Space

Random quote of the day:

“To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one’s own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one’s own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.”

—Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves



Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

Random quote of the day:

“No matter how many times she is forbidden, quelled, cut back, diluted, tortured, touted as unsafe, dangerous, mad, and other degradations, [Wild Woman] emanates upward in women, so that even the most quiet, even the most restrained woman keeps a secret place for Wild Woman. Even the most repressed woman has a secret life, with secret thoughts and secret feelings which are lush and wild, that is, natural. Even the most captured woman guards the place of the wildish self, for she knows intuitively that someday there will be a loophole, an aperture, a chance, and she will hightail it to escape.”

—Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves

 

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

 

“We are filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught to feel shame for such a desire. We grew our hair long and used it to hide our feelings. But the shadow of Wild Woman still lurks behind us during our days and in our nights. No matter where we are the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed.”

—Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Yes, I know. There are so many charities asking for your financial support these days. But here's a chance to save some lovely wilderness and an iconic bit of Hollywood history. We only have until April 30 to do it.



Howard Hughes originally bought Cahuenga Peak, the land on which the Hollywood sign sits, to build a mansion for Ginger Rogers, but when they broke up, he let the land sit there, as he did so many of his plots of land around L.A. That's why a number of them, like Ballona Wetlands and the Cahuenga Peak, have been saved from the rapaciousness of developers. In 2002, the Hughes estate decided to sell off the Peak. The city of Los Angeles and the Trust for Public Land wanted to buy it and save the land in its wilderness state, making it a part of Griffith Park, the large wilderness area inside the city. But the Hughes estate was asking a whopping $22 million dollars. L.A. and the Trust tried to raise that much, but were unable to, and a group of Chicago vultures swooped in with a plan to build butt-ugly McMansions on the site. The bottom fell out of the real estate market, as you may know, and the Chicago syndicate couldn't march forward with their plans. Another chance arose to save the site, at the now "reasonable" price of $12.5 million dollars. The Trust for Public Land, some big donors inside and outside of Hollywood, plus a lot of little Jo/Joe Average donors have managed to raise $11, but the deadline for raising that other $1.5 million is April 30. One of the big donors has put up another $500k as a matching fund, so every donation from the public is worth that much extra.

From the Trust for Public Land site:

Individuals may donate online at www.savehollywoodland.org, or with their cell phones by texting the word LAND to the number 50555 to give $5. When prompted, reply with YES to confirm the gift. Standard messaging and data rates may apply.

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It's been that kind of week.


Random quote of the day:


"[Daimons] introduce a welcome hint of wildness and uncertainty into the universe that is in danger of being a little too self-explanatory."

—C. S. Lewis, The Discarded Image


( Illustrated version. )